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To be resign'd when ills betide, Patient when favours are denied, And pleased with favours given;-- Dear Chloe, this is wisdom's part, That is that incense of the heart Whose fragrance smells to heaven. - Nathaniel Cotton, The Fireside (st. 11) Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away. - William Cowper, Task--Winter Morning Walk (bk. V, last lines) Dare to look up to God and say, Deal with me in the future as Thou wilt; I am of the same mind as Thou art; I am Thine; I refuse nothing that pleases Thee; lead me where Thou wilt; clothe me in any dress Thou choosest. - Epictetus, Discourses (bk. II, ch. XVI) With a sigh for what we have not, we must be thankful for what we have, and leave to One wiser than ourselves the deeper problems of the human soul and of its discipline. - Rt. Hon. William Ewart Gladstone Bends to the grave with unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past. - Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village (l. 110) No cloud can overshadow a true Christian but his faith will discern a rainbow in it. - Thomas Hartwell Horne That's best Which God sends. 'Twas His will: it is mine. - Lord Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton ("Owen Meredith"), Lucile (pt. II, canto VI, st. 29) To will what God doth will, that is the only science That gives us any rest. - Francois de Malherbe, Consolation (st. 7), (Longfellow's translation) The pious farmer, who ne'er misses pray'rs, With patience suffers unexpected rain; He blesses Heav'n for what its bounty spares, And sees, resign'd, a crop of blighted grain. But, spite of sermons, farmers would blaspheme, If a star fell to set their thatch on flame. - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Poem, written Oct., 1736 Let God do with me what He will, anything He will; and, whatever it be, it will be either heaven itself, or some beginning of it. - William Mountford (1) If God be appeased, I can not be wretched. [Lat., Placato possum non miser esse deo.] - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Tristium (III, 40) Is it reasonable to take it ill, that anybody desires of us that which is their own? All we have is the Almighty's; and shall not God have his own when he calls for it? - William Penn "My will, not thine, be done," turned Paradise into a desert. "Thy will, not mine, be done," turned the desert into a paradise, and made Gethsemane the gate of heaven. - Edmond de Pressense If God send thee a cross, take it up willingly and follow him. Use it wisely, lest it be unprofitable. Bear it patiently, lest it be intolerable. If it be light, slight it not. If it be heavy, murmur not. After the cross is the crown. - Francis Quarles One alleviation in misfortune is to endure and submit to necessity. [Lat., Unum est levamentum malorum pati et necessitatibus suis obsequi.] - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), De Ira (III, 16) Let that please man which has pleased God. [Lat., Placeat homini quidquid deo placuit.] - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (LXXIV) Thus ready for the way of life or death, I wait the sharpest blow, Antiochus. - William Shakespeare, Pericles Prince of Tyre (Pericles at I, i) It seem'd so hard at first, mother, to leave the blessed sun, And now it seems as hard to stay--and yet His will be done! But still I think it can't be long before I find release; And that good man, the clergyman, has told me words of peace. - Lord Alfred Tennyson, The May-Queen--Conclusion (st. 3) Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow. - Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet
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